GUILLAUME PERAULT; S. XIV ex.
Merton College MS. 214
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
GUILLAUME PERAULT; S. XIV ex.
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 214
Place of origin
England
Date
S. XIV ex.
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
304 leaves (iii + 301) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.
Hands
Written in the neat, small, regular anglicana of Mittone.
Decoration
On fols. 1, 132 6-line initials in colours and gold with full borders (cf. Scott, DEMB, pl. 4); blue initials flourished in red; blue or red paraphs; red highlighting and running heads.
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii; sewn on six bands; formerly chained from the usual position. At the foot of fol. i, formerly the pastedown in an earlier binding, is the mark of a brass chain-staple.
Provenance
Made in England.
At the head of fol. iiiv ‘Collegio Mertone tradatur ad incathenandus in libraria eiusdem ex dono Magistri Roberti Elyott’. For Elyot, fellow of All Souls College in 1450, still in 1461, see MS 46. The book entered the library of Merton College on 5 Sept. 1499 (Registrum, p. 235).
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents and ‘F. 4, 4’ (canc.), s. xvii, and ‘P. 1. 11. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘N. 1. 8 (CCXIV)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘11’ is inked on the foredge.
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